We present a concurrent higher-order programming language called Plain and a concomitant static type system. Plain is based on logic variables and computes with possibly partial data structures. The data structures of Plain are procedures, cells, and records. Plain’s type system features record-based subtyping, bounded existential polymorphism, and access modalities distinguishing between readi...

On occasion gastric ulcers may be recognized on plain abdominal radiographs. A case in which a gastric ulcer was diagnosed on the plain abdominal radiograph, illustrating the importance of careful scrutiny of the plain film in all cases of acute abdomen, is presented. The existence of the lesser curvature ulcer was confirmed on barium contrast studies.

†, ††† Department of CSE/IT, Quaid e Awam UEST, Nawabshah 67480, Pakistan †† Department of CSE/SWE, Mehran UET, Jamshoro 76062, Pakistan . Summary In many performance oriented applications like cooperative information sharing, defense applications, disaster management, mission critical applications and commercial production applications End to end QoS is a very critical issue. They all require ...

This paper studies the connection between risk-sharing and organizational form. It models the organizational form decision as a trade-off between the superior capital market access of the stock form and a regulatory or agency advantage held by the mutual form. When capital is expensive, consumers will substitute away from paying investors to supply risk-bearing capital and toward bearing more r...

sanitarians, and environmental health professionals and practitioners. The findings and conclusions in this report are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official position of CDC. CAPT Mehran Massoudi is the associate director for science in the Scientific Education and Professional Development Program Office at CDC; he has been at CDC for 18 years working in various di...

Toru Naganuma, MD,* Alaide Chieffo, MD,* Emanuele Meliga, MD,y Davide Capodanno, MD, PHD,z Seung-Jung Park, MD,x Yoshinobu Onuma, MD,k Marco Valgimigli, MD,{ Sanda Jegere, MD,#** Raj R. Makkar, MD,yy Igor F. Palacios, MD,zz Charis Costopoulos, MD,* Young-Hak Kim, MD,x Piotr P. Buszman, MD, PHD,xx Tarun Chakravarty, MD,yy Imad Sheiban, MD,kk Roxana Mehran, MD,{{ Christoph Naber, MD,*** Ronan Mar...

OBJECTIVES This study examined the perceptions of cigarette packaging and the potential impact of plain packaging regulations. The hypothesis was that the branded cigarette packages would be rated more positively than the corresponding plain packs with and without descriptors. DESIGN Between-subjects experimental online survey. Male and female participants were separately randomised to one of...